#mother

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#babies #causes #certainly #children #does

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ↗

— Petrarch

#disgust #mother #sameness #variety

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. ↗

— Sophocles

#becomes #educates #evil #mother #things

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #clear #enumerate #equal #even

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#floor #honeymoon #mother #night #spent

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations. ↗

— Della Reese

#conversations #friend #god #had #mother

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#breakdown #children #compassionate #divided #each

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#become #callousness #cheapen #child #common

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband. ↗

— Little Richard

#always #be strong #because #feet #felt

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations. ↗

— Ann Richards

#could #entertainer #expectations #going #had